I received a job offer to work in a family practice clinic that is associated with a hospital. The clinic is a residency training program so each year you get new residents who come through. The residents see the patients but confer with the attendings. The clinic sees a large portion of the underserved population. They see the entire lifespan and do a few procedures and see far more adults than kids. The clinic has mostly medical assistants as there is only a very tiny portion of the job that requires a RN license, but they want RNs to get PCMH certification. I worry that I'll lose my RN skills or an edge in the job market down the road by doing a job that is 98% medical assistant. We don't even do patient education because the residents need to learn, but we're supposed to help teach the residents. Any thoughts? I have 15 months med/surg telemetry experience to date. Long term goals include going back to school for FNP, but strongly prefer pediatrics to adults. The hospital is a large financially stable hospital, but not super well ranked (I only place so much emphasis on rankings though). They do still have a good reputation in the city. They have good tuition reimbursement if you attend their college of nursing, but the MSN programs are campus based, not online, and the campus is in the opposite direction of my home and the clinic. If you attend another MSN program, they give you $3,500 a year. While they do have a pension plan, they got rid of 403b matching.
I also have a job offer to work at our pediatric hospital in the endocrinology clinic as a diabetes educator. I would see patients both in clinic routinely as well as respond to any inpatient consults. There are 6 educators currently and I would make the 7th. It's a high ranked and well respected pediatric hospital. They only offer $3,500 a year in tuition reimbursement, making it likely not feasible to go back to school while working there. However, there is always the chance of making it work or transferring to another system in a few years once I have more experience. They do have both a pension plan and 403b matching.
Both jobs are daytime Monday to Friday hours. The diabetes educator position takes weekend call, but only every 7th weekend. Both jobs are about the same distance from where I live, but the family clinic job would not have to deal with rush hour traffic. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!
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I received a job offer to work in a family practice clinic that is associated with a hospital. The clinic is a residency training program so each year you get new residents who come through. The residents see the patients but confer with the attendings. The clinic sees a large portion of the underserved population. They see the entire lifespan and do a few procedures and see far more adults than kids. The clinic has mostly medical assistants as there is only a very tiny portion of the job that requires a RN license, but they want RNs to get PCMH certification. I worry that I'll lose my RN skills or an edge in the job market down the road by doing a job that is 98% medical assistant. We don't even do patient education because the residents need to learn, but we're supposed to help teach the residents. Any thoughts? I have 15 months med/surg telemetry experience to date. Long term goals include going back to school for FNP, but strongly prefer pediatrics to adults. The hospital is a large financially stable hospital, but not super well ranked (I only place so much emphasis on rankings though). They do still have a good reputation in the city. They have good tuition reimbursement if you attend their college of nursing, but the MSN programs are campus based, not online, and the campus is in the opposite direction of my home and the clinic. If you attend another MSN program, they give you $3,500 a year. While they do have a pension plan, they got rid of 403b matching.
I also have a job offer to work at our pediatric hospital in the endocrinology clinic as a diabetes educator. I would see patients both in clinic routinely as well as respond to any inpatient consults. There are 6 educators currently and I would make the 7th. It's a high ranked and well respected pediatric hospital. They only offer $3,500 a year in tuition reimbursement, making it likely not feasible to go back to school while working there. However, there is always the chance of making it work or transferring to another system in a few years once I have more experience. They do have both a pension plan and 403b matching.
Both jobs are daytime Monday to Friday hours. The diabetes educator position takes weekend call, but only every 7th weekend. Both jobs are about the same distance from where I live, but the family clinic job would not have to deal with rush hour traffic. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!